Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> --On Saturday, August 7, 2004 1:44 PM +1000 Brian Havard
> wrote:
>
>> The 2.13 macro is actually AC_MSG_WARN but when I tried using that it
>> still
>> failed while it was contained in the m4_if. Moving the line out of the
>> m4_if, having the $0 in there seems to cause some kind of infinite
>> recursion (process dies eventually from lack of memory).
>
>
> Well, m4_if isn't even supported on autoconf-2.13 and AC_MSG_WARN is for
> configure-time warnings, not autoconf-time warnings - which is what we
> wanted this to be.
>
> Regardless, please try HEAD.
>
> I will also note that libtool-1.5 and higher *require* autoconf-2.50 or
> higher. So, I would expect that we should drop autoconf-2.13 support
> sometime in the near future via AC_PREREQ(2.50).
>
> (In fact for releases, autoconf-2.13 is certainly way too buggy.) --
The releases have been rolled with 2.59.
david